UX Lead
Location: GB
Department: Product development
Employment type: Part-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Airlines/Aviation
Function: Product Management

Company profile:
Founded by serial entrepreneur Clive Jackson and launched in 2011, Victor is one of the world’s most trusted names in private jet charter. With only a 5% fee for online bookings, Victor offers the broadest selection of quotes for charter flights at the best prices directly from the operators. With access to over 700 contracted aircraft, Victor can get you airborne in less than 2 hours from almost any airport around the world on any aircraft type. We're a small and growing agile team. As a team we aspire to the hacker culture and we care about what we do. We want to produce simple, elegant solutions to difficult problems. We take pride in getting the job done right. We want to improve as individuals and improve the team and wider organisation around us.Our development team use modern technologies, tools and methods to produce a product that our customers love. We want our applications to be ubiquitous; any time someone is booking a jet they'll be using the Victor platform.We choose the best tools for the job and right now that's mostly node and Angular, with MongoDB and a smattering of Python.For vacancies for our other companies, #URL_8b5fe34131f015b09e2b4b01097392477242e0de74786a62a71e91e1e5dbfba7# and Global Beach, please click on links below:#URL_c31909b471fce3a2c3ea962a074a37e919edf78b8dfb90c4a3a9ace570542adf#http://global-#URL_c4958175db594f9b8c88259f8f6fa850085a15c4723021f19596b2a9752dc62f#

Job description:
We're Fly Victor, and we're revolutionising the private jet market. Think Airbnb for private jets; we're creating the marketplace that connects operators of aircraft to our members who want to fly them, and allowing them to be purchased as a whole aircraft or by seat. We've just raised £5m to take our initial application to a global scale, and you might have seen us in the Guardian, Telegraph or on Bloomberg over the last couple of weeks.We're a small and growing agile team. As a team we aspire to the hacker culture. We care about what we do. We want to produce simple, elegant solutions to difficult problems. We take pride in getting the job done right. We want to improve as individuals and improve the team and wider organisation around us. We use modern technologies, tools and methods to produce a product that our customers love. We want our applications to be ubiquitous; any time someone is booking a jet they'll be using the Victor platform.We choose the best tools for the job and right now that's mostly node and Angular, with MongoDB. We have a smattering of Python, and a .net application that's slowly being retired.

Requirements:
We're looking for a talented UX lead to join our team to really push our brand across the web and mobile. You'll have led the UX on a number of hugely successful applications, and will be known in the field for the quality of your work.You'll be taking ownership of the usability and styling of our application, working with our produt and biz teams to translate their feature ideas into sleek usable interfaces and with our developers to ensure the vision is realised in the product.You'll see our applications through our users eyes, and will work tirelessly to represent best practice in visual and interface design.You'll also be expected to take part in the validation of changes, further refinements and to conduct usability surveys both in person and online.We offer a fast, fun, challenging environment. The whole team is given the opportunity to drive the evolution of the product and you'll be expected to contribute your knowledge and experience widely across the product and wider teams.Key skills:- Web design- Mobile design- User interface design- Product management- Usability testing- Experimentation and analytics

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